Hi everyone! I am very excited today to share with you an interview I conducted with Laura Medalia. I got to know her on Instagram, where she is under the name codergirl_. She is actually the first “women in tech” account I found on Instagram and I have been following her adventures ever since! I thought it would be interesting to do an interview so I could ask her all the questions I wanted! 😉
She had very great answers and great advice to give, so I’ll let you read our interview!
Are you active on Facebook groups? If you answer yes to this question, you must read this article to the end. It’s an order! I’ll give you five ways to promote your blog on your FB profile. It takes 10 minutes to do, and it could bring you many visitors!
When I am on a Facebook group, and I see people commenting about their blog, I regularly want to go and read it. By cons, in 75% of the cases, their blog can not be found on their Facebook profile! It is written nowhere!
I can’t take the time to ask all those who makes me curious what the address of their blog is. I would waste a lot of time. So, I move on! Unfortunately, I could have fallen in love with this blog … Opportunity missed!
I am in many Facebook groups for bloggers. Lately, I have seen a lot of the same questions being asked by new bloggers who were creating their new blog. Their question was: “Is it important to buy the option for the confidentiality of the domain name?”, “Is it important to purchase the whois protection?”. My answer: it depends on what you prefer to do. At the end of this blog post, you will be able to make your decision.
In this article, I will show you a concrete example so that you can understand why it is important to do so. If you do not buy it, anyone can have access to your phone number, home address, full name and email address … and more.
Only a few people have realized the number of hours of work that are invested in a blog. Having a blog isn’t just about writing articles. You also have to promote, send a lot of emails, do administration tasks, worry about security, make site backups, and so on. The list is very long!
Fortunately, we come across some tools along the way that will help us to do the tasks that are necessary for the success of our blogs. IFTTT is one of them, and it can help you by automating a lot of your recurrent tasks!
There is a new trend on Instagram: using the website Linktree to have multiple links instead of one on your profile. I have very quickly joined the trend since I have many things to promote to my subscribers! My Facebook page, my newsletter, etc… Unfortunately, I soon realized that my Google Analytics acquisition data wasn’t accurate anymore.
Visitors now came from the referral category and then from link.tree. For me, these visitors come from Instagram. I wanted them to appear under “Acquisition > Social > Instagram” as they do by default! Statistics are crucial to know where to put our promotion efforts. I started looking for a way to allow my traffic from Linktree to merge and back into the Social> Instagram category.
Hello everyone ! Recently, Facebook groups are becoming more and more popular. Particularly those for “blogging”, in which I am very involved. It is often said that what is the most important when we have a blog is to find places where we can reach our audience. In my opinion, FB groups are one of the best and easy ways we currently have.
After trial and error which I will talk about in this article, I finally found the most efficient way for me to never forget when I have to promote an article and on which group to do it. Keep reading, and you will become a professional of FB group promotion!
Not long ago, I started to promote my blog on Facebook more seriously. Since the subject of my blog is not 100% appropriate for the audience present in these groups, I quickly wondered if the time invested in the promotion was worth it.
Therefore, I started looking for a method to be able to track which Facebook groups brings me the most visitors! And I found an EASY way!
Since I created my Instagram account for my blog, I discovered a wonderful community. It can be surprising, but there are many programmers on this social network! On a network like Instagram, hashtags make all the difference to find accounts that are similar to ours and make new connections (in other words, get more followers). A while ago, the hashtag ilooklikeanengineer was very popular, but there are many others to know!
As with anything related to women in technology, I had difficulty finding right hashtags to use to connect with others like me when I first started. To help us reach out to each other, I thought I’d create a list of the best hashtags to use when sharing our photos! Some can also very well apply to any other programmer, no matter your gender!
How to get more followers on Instagram? Since I got to 15k Instagram followers, I get asked this question more and more. I want to answer that question once and for all. Besides, I strongly advise against buying Instagram followers. That will not bring you any commitment in the long run, and that is what you want from your followers.
I don’t think there is any secret recipe, nor that we can get to that point with no effort at all. However, I think some of my advice can help you increase your engagement on that social media! I also have to say that I think the niche you are in really does make a difference. Since I am in the tech and programming niche, there is a nice community that revolves around these subjects!
Hi, everyone! Today I am publishing yet another interview! I interviewed Jess Lee, who is a COO and co-founder of dev.to. (The other founder is Ben Halpern, who is the CEO). Dev.to is a website full of coding resources and blog posts for programmers. They are pretty popular and active on Twitter, too, so you might know them from that social media! I wanted to ask her some questions and get to know her better because I think their website is pretty awesome for any programmer!
These interviews are popular on the blog, and I must admit I love doing them! Also, I think it is interesting to be able to present you such awesome women in tech or entrepreneurial individuals! My previous interviews were with Holy (codegirlcode), and Cleo, a freelance web developer!
